Hay and grain stacking frame



M. A. LACEY.

HAY AND GRAIN STACKINGTFRAME APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26. 1915.

1,333,497. Patented Mar. 9,1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEET M. A. LA CEY. HAY AND GRAIN STACKING FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE 26p IQI5- 1,333,497. Patented Mar.9,1920.

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- m w-ms TENT 1 MILTON apnacnY, or BATH, ILLINOIS."

HAY Ann GRAIN STACKVING FRAME.

To all whom itmayconccrn: o

Be it known that LATILTON A.- LAcEY, a citizen of the United ,States,residing at Bath, in the county .ofMason and 'State of Illinois, haveinventedcerta-in new f and useful Improvements in Hay and Grain StackingFrames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexa'ct'description of the invention, such as will enable'other skilledin theart to which it appertains to'make and use the same.

The invention relates to imprbvements in hay and grain stacking frames.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofhay and grainstacking frames and to provide a simple, practical andinexpensive stacking frame adapted to be easily and quickly set up inposition for use, in a field and capable of being readily removed whenthe stack is completed and of preventing great waste of hay and Grain.

- A further object of the invention is to V I provide a stacking frameof this character adapted to afford ready access to its 1nte rior toenable the hay or grain to be tramped as compactly as desired andequipped with means for protecting it from the weather to prevent thehay or grain from being wet before the top of the stack is finished.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterfully described,-illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointedout in the clainrhereto appended, it being understood that variouschanges in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may beresorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of theadvantages of the invention.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hay and grain stackinframe constructed in accordance with this invention, the covers beingrolled up. 7

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of grain stacking frame.

Fig. 4 1s a transverse sectional view, the

covers being unrolled and in position for I v terial adapted. to beunrolled from the rollprotecting. the hay or grain.

: Specification of Letters Patent.

the hay and I view of one of the'segm enta-l heads of the I respondingparts in all thefigures of the.

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In the accompanying drawing iirwhich is illustrated thcqareferredembodiment of the invention, 11 designates side walls or memberspreferably composed of end posts or bars 2 and horizontal connectingrails 3,

arranged at intervals and suitably secured at their ends to the posts 2.The end posts or vertical bars 2 are provided with horizontallyprojecting hooks 4 having downwardly extending bills adapted to engage up q Patented Mar. 9, 1920. y

. Applicationfiled ifnne26, 1915. SerialNo. 36,445. V i

staples 5 of end walls or members 6 composed of vertical bars or posts 7and horizontal connecting rails or bars 8 suitably secured to thepostsor bars 7. The side walls or members and the end walls or members forman oblong inclosure and in practice the side walls or members will be 22ft. long and 10 ft. high while the end walls or members will be 10 ft.square, but the stacking frame may be made of any desired dimensions aswill be readily understood.

Also instead of employing the hooks and staples or eyes any othersuitable means may be employed for detachably interlocking the side andend walls or members with each other.

at their centers with vertical ladders 9 of any preferred constructlonextending above the top rails of the end walls or members and providedat their upper ends with substantially segmental heads 11. The laddersThe end walls or members are equipped I are preferably about 16 ft. inlength but other and the said rollers are provided with covers 14tofcanvas or other suitable magrain.

'ers and drawn down over the top and sides 7 7 V serve to retain theformer in the bearing-- slots or recesses .In placing the rollers in therecesses, one man mounts each of the ladders and places his endot therollers in the bearing slots. The arrangement ofvthe rollers one abovethe other closes the space between'the rollers so'thatthe covers whichwill assume an inclined position before the stack is completed Wlllshe'd water and prevent the same froin'wetting the hay or When thestack'is completed the side walls or members are readily disconnectedand rejniove'd from aroundthe'hay or grain.

. Witnesses:

What is claimed is In a device of the class described, a frame, upwardlyextending supporting members carried bythe opposite 'ends'of the frame,

the upper terminals of the supports having grooves iln thelrlnnerfa'ces, upper andlower rollers, extending between the supports andmountedin-the grooves, and covers carried by the rollers, the groovesbeing inclined and extending downwardly and inwardly from the edges ofthe supports and terminatingat spaced points at their lower ends insubstantially the same verticalplane, whereby the rollers are normally"held in engagelnent'with'each other by gravity, as and for the'purposespecified. v

Intestiniony whereof I aflix my signa 'ture 'in "presence of twowitnesses.

MILTGN A. LACEY Moses Monms, LAWRENCEFB. Tmxvnns'; j

